The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (Third Edition, Vol. 06 of 12)Frazer, James George
Religion
The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (Third Edition, Vol. 06 of 12)
Frazer, James George
Magic; Mythology; Religion; Superstition
Farnell, Dr. L. R., on Greek religious music, i. 55 _n._ 1 and 3;
on religious prostitution in Western Asia, 57 _n._ 1, 58 _n._ 2;
on the position of women in ancient religion, ii. 212 _n._ 1;
on the Flamen Dialis, 227;
on the children of living parents in ritual, 236 _sq._;
on the festival of Laurel-bearing at Thebes, 242 _n._;
on eunuch priests of Cybele, 258 _n._ 1
Farwardajan, a Persian festival of the dead, ii. 68
Fast from bread in mourning for Attis, i. 272
Fasts observed by the worshippers of Cybele and Attis, i. 280;
of Isis and Cybele, 302 _n._ 4
Father named after his son, i. 51 _n._ 4;
of a god, 51, 52;
dead, worshipped, ii. 175, 184 _sq._;
the head of the family under a system of mother-kin, 211
—— -deity of the Hittites, the god of the thundering sky, i. 134 _sqq._
—— God, his emblem the bull, i. 164;
Attis as the, 281 _sqq._;
often less important than Mother Goddess, 282
—— -kin at Rome, i. 41
——, Mother, and Son divinities represented at Boghaz-Keui, i. 140 _sqq._
Father Sky fertilizes Mother Earth, i. 282
—— and mother, names for, i. 281;
as epithets of Roman gods and goddesses, ii. 233 _sqq._
Fatherhood of God, the physical, i. 80 _sq._
Fauna, rustic Roman goddess, her relationship to Faunus, ii. 234
Faunus, old Roman god, his relationship to Fauna or the Good Goddess, ii.
234
Feast of All Saints on November 1st, perhaps substituted for an old pagan
festival of the dead, ii. 82 _sq._;
instituted by Lewis the Pious, 83
—— of All Souls, ii. 51 _sqq._;
the Christian, originally a pagan festival of the dead, 81
—— of the Golden Flower at Sardes, i. 187
—— of Lanterns in Japan, ii. 65
Feet first, children born, custom observed at their graves, i. 93
Felkin, R. W. and C. T. Wilson, on the worship of the dead kings of
Uganda, ii. 173 _n._ 2
Fellows, Ch., on flowers in Caria, i. 187 _n._ 6
Female kinship, rule of descent of the throne under, ii. 18.
_See also_ Mother-kin
Fertility of ground thought to be promoted by prostitution, i. 39;
promoted by marriage of women to serpent, 67;
goddesses of, served by eunuch priests, 269 _sq._;
Osiris as a god of, ii. 112 _sq._
Fertilization of the fig, artificial, ii. 98
Festival of “the awakening of Hercules” at Tyre, i. 111;
of the Dead in Java, 220;
of Flowers (_Anthesteria_), 234 _sq._;
of Joy (_Hilaria_) in the rites of Attis, 273;
of Sais, ii. 49 _sqq._;
of Crowning at Delphi, 241
Festivals of the Egyptian farmer, ii. 32 _sqq._;
of Osiris, the official, 49 _sqq._;
Egyptian readjustment of, 91 _sqq._
Fetishism early in human history, ii. 43
“Field of the giants,” i. 158
Fig, artificial fertilization of the, at Rome in July, ii. 98, 259
Fiji, chiefs buried secretly in, ii. 105
Fijian god of fruit-trees, i. 90
—— Lent, i. 90
Fijians, their theory of earthquakes, i. 201
Financial oppression, Roman, i. 301 _n._ 2
Finlay, George, on Roman financial oppression, i. 301 _n._ 2
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